Edvins is no longer with us- Smythe-McKee represents his estate (as they do with several other estates). He was born in Latvia in 1933 and after World War II emigrated with his family to Chicago in 1950. Strautmanis graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and began exhibiting in 1965. After an exploratory hard-edge period in Chicago, working on paintings, sculptures and monotypes.
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